OpenRailwayMap/Signs in Italy

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This page is a work in progress! The content is likely incomplete, inaccurate or empty.

This page provides a list of signs and the relative tagging scheme for them.

For railway signals please refer to the specific page: Railway signals in Italy

Announcement boards (Tavole di Orientamento)

The announcement boards are first subdivided by two types:

  • Type a: This is called the "Normali" type, there are 7 tables and are positioned with a 50m spacing, here the main reference is the number of stripes, be it white or black.
  • Type b: This is called the "Distanziometriche" type, there are 4 tables positioned with a 100m spacing, the boards are composed by a black background with white stripes and the white stripes are the main reference.

This signals might be presented in a normal size, a dwarf size in stations or painted on electrical masts near the railway line.

Main Signals

Main signals are announced by boards composed of inclined stripes, the tagging should be the following:

Distant Signals

Distant signals are announced by boards composed of horizontal stripes, the tagging should be the following:

Permissive Signals

Permissive signals are announced by boards composed of inclined stripes with a yellow vertical stripe, the tagging should be the following:

Stop Marker

Stop markers are announced by boards with black background, and white triangles pointing to the railway line they are valid for, they are at 100m and 200m of the signal.

Location marker

Location markers are announced by boards with white background, and black triangles pointing to the railway line they are valid for, they are at 100m and 200m of the signal.

Protection Signals for Level Crossings without barriers

This type of protection signals is announced by boards composed by a board with alternating yellow/black and black/yellow section vertically.

Examples

  • Main signals announcement boards
    Main signals announcement boards
  • Distant Signal announcement board
    Distant Signal announcement board
  • Permissive signals announcement board
    Permissive signals announcement board
  • Announcement Board for Stop markers
    Announcement Board for Stop markers
  • Announcement boards for Location marker
    Announcement boards for Location marker
  • Announcement board for Level Crossings without barriers
    Announcement board for Level Crossings without barriers
  • Example of main signal announcement board in a station
    Example of main signal announcement board in a station
  • Example of main signal dwarf announcement board in a station
    Example of main signal dwarf announcement board in a station

ETCS

  • ETCS transition marker
    ETCS transition marker
  • Stop marker
    Stop marker
  • Location Marker
    Location Marker
  • ETCS L2 distant entry
    ETCS L2 distant entry
  • ETCS L2 entry
    ETCS L2 entry
  • ETCS L2 distant exit
    ETCS L2 distant exit
  • ETCS L2 exit
    ETCS L2 exit

For an in-dept visualization of the ETCS tagging scheme check out the specific ETCS markers tagging page. The page contains the standard markers as well as the italian level transiton ones and ETCS electrical markers.

Speed

Triangle

The triangle is a speed indicator added to a main signal to represent the speed limit in a section.

Speed Limits

Speed limit with three ranks, left, and 2 ranks, right.

Speed limit signals should be tagged as follows:

Speed Limits Distant

Remember that speed reduction is only effective after an adequate distance, check FL. Increase of speed is immediately effective.

Deposit and industrial area max speed

In deposit and other industrial sites there may be a specific sign with a max speed with the inscription "Velocità Max km/h ...", it should be tagged as follows

Level crossing signs

Halt Signs

Halt Signs

Halt signal, distant is the same but with one or two horizontal stripes below. The pole is haswith black and white horizontal stripes for the halt signal.

Halt signal is used to indicate the stopping position of a railway halt that does not have light signalling.

Distant Halt Sign

Before the halt signal there is always at least one distant halt signal

SCMT or SCC Halt Limit

The SCMT or SCC halt limit sign should be mapped with the following tags

Platform length signs

Old Version

An example of the sign

The old version of this type of signs uses a square sign divided into 4 squared sections, each one has a number of cars at which the corresponding train should stop. The numbers are marked from the bottom left square to the bottom right in a clockwise direction.

Effective Halt (red background)
Next Halts
An example of the sign with an effective and a distant

New Version

The new version uses in-line signs with the distance rather then the number of cars. Like the precedent both distant and effective might be on the same pole, so there could be the necessity to use both at the same time

Effective Halt (Red Background)
Distant Halt (Yellow Background)

Train Model

Some stations use signs with the train model to mark the stop point for said trains, you can use the following scheme

Emergency Exit

In case of an emergency exit there are some tables used to mark where a train should stop

Evacuation and Rescue (Posti di Evacuazione e Soccorso or PES)

This types of stop position markers resemble the ones used for a normal halt but they present an additional table that states "Punto di evacuazione e soccorso" plus the name of the place and the position, they are tagged in the same way as normal stop points but with the position and with the caption that marks with the name of the place

This signal might have one or more distant ones, so we tag them with the following tags

Emergency exits on ERTMS Lines

This marker is composed of a white square table with a black circumference with inside the name of the place at which the train is stopping, we tag it as

The distant version of this sign is composed by a dashed circumference and also reports the position of the emergency exit, so we tag it as

Route Indicators

Direction indicators for junctions or diramation stations

Static route indicators "Tabella Direzionale per Bivi e Stazioni di diramazione" are panels with black background and white markings and arrows to indicate the directions possible from the station or junction. The arrows have names of a major destination near the ends.

The tagging scheme is the following with two variants:

  • Two or three destinations:
    • railway:signal:route=IT:ROUTE
    • railway:signal:route:form=sign
    • railway:signal:route:states=*|*|* With states being the destinations from the leftmost to the rightmost as indicated in the panel ↖|↑|↗ if one state is missing just leave it empty but keep the two pipes ||. Example of leftmost direction missing |↑|↗ ( *=|Milano|Verona)
    • railway:signal:route:train_protection=*|*|* Indicates if there is a train protection sign in the direction of travel. If there is no indication do not use this tag. The direction scheme is the same of :states but insted of the destinations the tags that follow: (Example *=||COD_END to indicate codified zone end on the right direction)
      • COD for codified zone begin
      • END-COD for codified zone end
      • ETCS-L2 for ETCS L2 begin
      • END-ETCS-L2 for ETCS L2 end
      • empty for no train protection indication
  • Four or Five destinations:
    • railway:signal:route=IT:ROUTE
    • railway:signal:route:form=sign
    • railway:signal:route:states=*|*|*|*|* With states being the destinations from the leftmost to the rightmost as indicated in the panel ←|↖|↑|↗|→ if one state is missing just leave it empty but keep the four pipes ||||. Example of leftmost direction missing |↖|↑|↗|→
    • railway:signal:route:train_protection=*|*|*|*|* Indicates if there is a train protection sign in the direction of travel. If there is no indication do not use this tag. The direction scheme is the same of :states but insted of the destinations the tags that follow: (Example *=COD_END|||COD_END| to indicate end of codified zone on the leftmost direction and on slight right direction)
      • COD for codified zone begin
      • END-COD for codified zone end
      • ETCS-L2 for ETCS L2 begin
      • END-ETCS-L2 for ETCS L2 end
      • empty for no train protection indication


TODO EXAMPLES AND IMAGE

Shunting

Shunting limits

Shunting limits (Picchetto limite delle manovre) are indicated by a long white signal with a pointed top and striped black. They should be tagged with the following tags:

Culmine

The Culmine sign is used at the top of a hill or mountain to mark the end of a track with an intensive gradient.

Milestones

Normal Milestones

Normal railway milestones (cippo/cippo kilometrico) should be tagged with the following tags:

AV/AC

Milestones used on AV/AC lines should be tagged as

Falling Rocks

The sign for falling rocks should be tagged as

Torchs

In tunnels and other specific places some torches are placed for emergency lighting, the sign that marks such place is tagged as following

TODO

  • Torce
  • Fischio
  • PLA, PL Non Presidiati, Normalmente chiuse
  • Elettrificazione
  • Zone codificate
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